
Austerity, EU, Global economy, Health
Three elderly people have killed themselves in Italy, apparently crushed by their inability to fight financial woes in the recession-hit country. First a couple in their 60s hanged themselves, then the woman’s brother threw himself into the sea.
The bodies of Romeo Dionsi, 62, and Anna Sopranzi, 68, were found by neighbors on Friday morning at their home in Civitanova in central Italy.
Police said there was no doubt the suicide was linked to financial struggles.
Anna Sopranzi was getting a pension of 500 euro ($650) a month and her husband was a ‘victim’ of recent labor reforms, when the Italian government – among other measures – raised the retirement age and left him without unemployment insurance or the right to a pension.